Obituaries

Mary Beck, 96 Mary Beck, the first woman elected to the Detroit City Council, has died. She was 96. Beck, of Sterling Heights, died recently at St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital in Macomb County’s Clinton Township. “She was a standard bearer ...

Roger Lane, a longtime journalist who later worked for three Michigan Supreme Court chief justices and played a major role in preserving the court’s history, has died. He was 87. Lane died after suffering a massive stroke, his wife, Millicent ...

Joseph Forbes, a former state lawmaker and mayor of Oak Park, has died. He was 88. Forbes, who died of heart failure at a hospital in Royal Oak, served 26 years in public office, first as a councilman and mayor ...

Former State Rep. Frank M. Fitzgerald has died. He was 49. Fitzgerald served as Eaton County assistant prosecuting attorney from 1984-86. He then was a member of the House from 1987-98 and speaker pro tempore from 1993-96. He was appointed ...

Kay Everett, an outspoken Detroit City Council member who was facing federal extortion charges, died of complications of diabetes, her spokesman said. She was 63. The Detroit native was indicted in October on charges that she demanded and accepted bribes ...

Assistant Attorney General Stewart “Stew” Freeman has died. He was 63. Freeman, of Williamston, served as an assistant attorney general in charge for 38 years, and was a key adviser in many major cases under former Attorney General Frank Kelley. ...

Stanley D. Steinborn, Michigan’s longtime former chief assistant attorney general, has died. He was 72. The East Lansing resident worked for 34 years for former Attorney General Frank Kelley. “He was mindful that our office had to be the public’s ...

Richard Headlee, a 1982 Republican gubernatorial candidate and anti-tax advocate best known for a state constitutional amendment that limits government spending, has died. He was 74. Headlee died in Utah, where he lived, according to the Midland-based Mackinac Center for ...

Former Kent County Circuit Court Judge Woodrow Alexander Yared has died. He was 88. He served as chief judge of the Grand Rapids District Court for nine years. In 1978, he was elected to the Kent County Circuit Court, where ...

Former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Dorothy Comstock Riley has died. She was 79. Riley, of Grosse Pointe Farms, died Oct. 23 while watching a football game at home with her husband of 41 years. She died of complications of ...